Living
Passing T’ien-mēn Street in Ch’ang-an and Seeing a Distant View of Chung-nan Mountain
Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)
The snow has gone from Chung-nan; spring is almost come.
Lovely in the distance its blue colours, against the brown of the
streets.
A thousand coaches, ten thousand horsemen pass down the Nine Roads;
Turns his head and looks at the mountains,--not one man!
Cite this poem
MLA
Chü-i, Po. “Passing T’ien-mēn Street in Ch’ang-an and Seeing a Distant View of Chung-nan Mountain.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/2/.
Chicago
Chü-i, Po. “Passing T’ien-mēn Street in Ch’ang-an and Seeing a Distant View of Chung-nan Mountain.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/2/.
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